THE ARYANS

Director: Mo Asumang

2014, 90min.

Language: German w/ English subtitles

Sponsored by: German Studies at Trinity, Language and Culture Studies, The Faculty Event Fund, The First-Year Program, The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, The Dean of Students Office, American Studies, Trinity Social Justice Initiative, Women and Gender Resource Center Action Center, Sociology

A documentary in which an African-German gets to he bottom of right-wing movements worldwide – and their completely wrong interpretation of “Aryanism” – a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race established by the French philosopher Gobineau, It went on with the Nazis, and still promotes hate and racial murders today. Filmmaker Mo Asumang sets out for a tour de force into the abyss of the political evil in Germany and the US. She travels to places where the real Aryans originally came from an area which is now part of Iran.THE ARYANS is a personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest.

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